This paper examines how the Romantic
poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats all used poetry to
chronicle visionary
moments, or moments of clarity inspired by dreams or by nature, which reveal truths that would remain hidden in everyday life. It looks at how illustrations of such experiences can be seen in much of these
poets' work, but is especially notable in Wordsworth's "Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known," Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer."